Imagine a cross between Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire and Marisha Pessl's Night Film and you've got something approximating House of Leaves. It's a deeply weird book, one presented as a commentary on a film known as The Navidson Record, about a family who moves to an old house in the country only to ...
House of Leaves is the kind of story that loves to mess with your head a "little" bit. It doesn't have one storyline and one of the stories can be unreliable at times due to his increasing lack of sanity. I found myself spiralling downwards in a maze of subtle confusion as I continued through this n...
Frankly I like my books more straightforward. House of Leaves felt too clever for my liking. There are several story lines running at the same time and there are points when the writing needs to be read in a mirror or is highlighted with copious (and I mean copious) footnotes. Even though the novel ...
I want to read this very badly, but I need to actually buy a copy to be able to take my time and read through it. Very interested after reading the small bit I have already.
bookshelves: boo-scary, re-read, paper-read, play-dramatisation, published-2000, autumn-2011, radio-4, architecture Read from October 29, 2000 to October 29, 2011 A tongue-in-cheek re-visit via BBC - how fab!Adapted by Mike Walker."The Navidson Record now stands as part of this country's cultura...
Torn about this - as the book progressed, my attention decreased rapidly. The three stars comprise of two ratings; five stars for the first half and the idea in general and one star from then on. Too much babbling, too many distractions to appreciate. However, I may be back to change my rating later...
At times HOUSE OF LEAVES made my head (and my wrists) hurt, but I admit to enjoying the former sensation. The confusion and disorientation experienced by the reader (and paralleled by the characters) seems essential in successfully traversing Danielewski's semiotic Rubic's Cube of a novel.It's an in...
House of Leaves totally sucked me in. The book is shorter than it seems, but then also longer than it seems. A contradictory statement, I am aware. You get lots of blank page with little text and then pages and page of interpolated commentary.It's kind of like a modern day Borges horror story meets ...
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